The business rates bill for offices in the city (of London) will rise by £1.4bn, or 33% over the next five years. The British chancellor Phillip Hammond has since announced some relief for those hardest hit by rate rises, but many recruitment businesses will not be able to claim any compensation at all. So, what…
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If you work for an international company, with offices around the world, you may have advised your candidate to consider not only changing jobs but moving to a completely new country – which could be on the other side of the world from where they are now. There are a lot of considerations they have…
Have you ever wondered why good specialists are sometimes rejected by one company as unprofessional, yet accepted by another as a gem? The “army” of any company hugely depends on its recruiter skills. Some of them have those qualities, others don’t, losing their best candidates without even listening to them. Being a recruiter is a…
In today’s world, with all the communication you could ever desire at your fingertips, the working environment is a fast changing landscape. Global companies can work in sync with offices on opposing sides of the world. Distance is no longer a barrier in productivity or a hindrance to communication. Unsurprisingly, over the last decade, we…
Writing a job ad might seem like a fairly intuitive kind of process – you think you know what the job is, you have a fair idea of the kind of person you’re looking for: all that remains is to put the two together, right? Of course, it’s not quite that simple. Constructing an advert…
It’s both the worst and the best time of year to be thinking about changing careers. The new year is only just behind us, so a change is likely to seem appealing, yet winter means we’re getting less sunlight and less likely to have a positive attitude towards work. However, your candidates probably have very…
It’s such a common story. You get great at your day job, and start become one of the company’s rising stars. You bill at very high levels compared with your colleagues and people begin to talk about you. You are a high flyer, a top performer, one to watch. Then one day your ambitions become…
Manufacturing is a vertical with several special considerations in recruiting. You’ll need experienced, skilled candidates for niche positions in most cases, and that means you’ll need to write accurate, appealing job descriptions if you want to attract them. Why job descriptions matter for manufacturing Why is it so important to have top-notch job descriptions for…
Nobody will ever openly admit to discriminating against a candidate based on their age, ethnicity or sexual orientation but countless studies have uncovered ‘unconscious bias’ during the recruitment process. A recent investigation by the BBC found that a job seeker with an English-sounding name was offered three times the number of interviews than an applicant with a…